About CHI Limited
CHI limited is one of the most admired companies in the Food & Beverages industry in Nigeria. It offers products that are themselves benchmarks in their respective categories of Juice, Dairy and Snacks. Today, CHI Limited is the undisputed market leader in fruit juices, fruit drinks and yoghurts in Nigeria. In the Juice Nectar Still Drinks (JNSD) category, CHI Limited has mega brands such as CHIVITA 100%, CHIVITA Active, CHI Exotic, Happy Hour by Chivita, CHI Ice Tea & Capri-Sonne. CHI Limited also takes great pride in its range of dairy products, which include Hollandia Yoghurt, Hollandia Evaporated Milk, Hollandia UHT Milk, Hollandia Soya Milk, CHI Fit and Smart Fruit Milk Drink, to name a few.
Job Title: Maintenance Planner
Location: Nigeria
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Planner to coordinate and optimise maintenance activities, ensuring equipment reliability, minimal downtime, efficient resource utilisation, and effective spare-parts management across our manufacturing operations.
Key Responsibilities.
- Develop and manage weekly, monthly and annual maintenance plans, including preventive and predictive maintenance, weekly care, TPMS and periodic overhauls.
- Coordinate maintenance schedules with Production, Operations, Utilities and Engineering teams to minimise unplanned downtime and production disruption.
- Develop detailed job plans, ensuring the availability of manpower, tools, permits, technical documentation and required spare parts.
- Manage maintenance work orders and backlog through CMMS/SAP PM, ensuring proper planning, execution and closure.
- Review maintenance-spares requisitions to validate technical specifications, quantities, stock availability and alignment with approved maintenance requirements.
- Monitor maintenance KPIs, including schedule compliance, PM completion, MTBF, MTTR and planned versus reactive maintenance.
- Support shutdown planning, equipment reliability improvement, maintenance budgeting and cost optimisation.
- Ensure compliance with HSE, GMP, food safety and statutory maintenance requirements.
- B.Sc. or HND in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Mechatronics, Instrumentation Engineering or a related discipline.
- 5–7 years of maintenance experience in a high-speed FMCG or process-manufacturing environment, including at least 2 years in maintenance planning and scheduling.
- Practical exposure to production, process and packaging equipment, as well as industrial utilities.
- Strong working knowledge of CMMS/SAP PM, work-order management, maintenance scheduling and backlog control.
- Experience in spare-parts planning, inventory control and technical evaluation of maintenance requisitions.
- Knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, asset criticality, RCA and reliability improvement techniques.
- Strong analytical, planning, coordination and cost-management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI or project scheduling tools is an advantage.
- A recognised maintenance or reliability certification is an added advantage.
Application Deadline: 26 , October 2026
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METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and Qualified candidates should use link below to apply
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